Talk:NEAR Shoemaker

Space craft temperature - danger from aliens - funny?
the space craft was indeed cool, and i think that it should have not been shut down on eros. attempts should have been made to recover the craft and pilot it back to earth, or the space station, because the aliens could find it and then attack our planet and kill our population to harvest the earth of its remaining natural resources, before moving on to the next planet that advertises itself by leaving old probes in orbit. if everyone dies by aliens, i hope the boffins at NASA have it on their consciences that it is their fault, until their consciences are stopped by extensive mind probing. 194.72.50.157 (talk) 09:43, 2 March 2005‎ (UTC)
 * Hilarious. :-) --ScottyBoy900Q 04:19, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * This is not hilarious. It is a serious matter. Leaving this deactivated probe on a near-earth asteroid, which basically shares the same orbit as Earth itself around the sun, is a very dangerous way to advertise our presence to aliens, who probably wouldn't notice the planet earth, or the powerful radio waves emanating from all over it, but would notice this little probe in a similiar orbit to earth. I am going to write to Congress to have this ill-thought-out mission removed before we all die :'( Buckethed (talk) 08:55, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

aerogel
Hopiakuta 02:54, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Findings?
A section with a concise summary of the most important findings would be nice. -- 92.229.179.88 (talk) 23:10, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

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Questions to address
- Rod57 (talk) 11:29, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Was it communicating by high gain antenna during the descent ?
 * Was there also a low gain antenna ?
 * after impact how was the orientation on the surface measured ?
 * (apparently it ended up resting on two of the 4 solar panels)
 * How did NASA communicate after impact (which probably misaligned the HG antenna, and Eros rotating) ?
 * Was the multispectral imager the camera used for the final images during descent ? (yes)
 * What was the timeline after impact, eg to get the on-surface x-ray/gamma-ray readings ? (14 days?)
 * why didn't NASA retrieve the rest of the final image ?
 * where on Eros did it land (Eros rotates in 5.27 hrs)